History Quote by Heath White

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function,…

— Gilbert Adair

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is…

— Catharine MacKinnon

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten…

— Fredric Jameson

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“postmodernists are just as concerned about objective truth as anyone else. Dallas Willard comments, “I have noticed that the most emphatic of Postmodernists turn…

— Nancy Pearcey

I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of so-called postmodernism…

— Tony Shafrazi

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

— Terry Eagleton

The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our…

— Mark Earley

“Therefore, it is a combination of the two factors—widespread skepticism about reason and socialism’s being in crisis—that is necessary to give rise to postmodernism.”

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Postmodernism involves the loss of any hope that some larger-than-human force—be it God or History or Progress or Science or Reason—is going to come…

— Heath White

“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and class make…

— David K. Naugle